World Heritage temple #Daikakuji in Saga-Arashiyama in northwest #Kyoto. The #temple and its pond were the palace grounds of #Emperor #Saga, who, like the T'ang Dynasty Emperors in the early 9th Century (a time of far higher #culture than today), was a pious patron of Buddhism, and of the great saint Kūkai who contributed so much to the golden age of #Heian Period Japan. My forthcoming paper related to #Kukai was by request of a university in #Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (where the Dalai Lama and his fellow exiles live). Meanwhile, my research on #Kukai, #Esoteric #Buddhism, #Asian #religions, #religious #syncretism, and other topics about #Japan is available at https://japanned.h commons.org/japanology or https://wilmina.academia.edu/SteveMcCarty/Japan
#Japanese #Religion #History
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The popular new book A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives is listed on Amazon sites such as https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Japan-Collection-Personal-Narratives/dp/4991150736
30 authors provide inside perspectives on living in Japan.
My chapter "Discovering Japanese Fusion of Religions on the Pilgrimage Island of Shikoku" is free at the research repositories https://www.academia.edu/82383623 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361566172
My translation of the chapter into Japanese (和訳): 「巡礼の島・四国で発見した日本の宗教融合」 (corrected by a native speaking university teacher in Kyoto) is free to download from https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:48212/CONTENT/discovering_ja.pdf
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#Pilgrimage, #Shikoku #Kompira #Zentsuji #Kukai #JapaneseBuddhism, #Shinto
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